Show Us, Lord

Read Deuteronomy 1
 
Deuteronomy 1:3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
 
YOU know that by reading Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, the Hebrews have sometimes preferred being “lost in the desert” instead of following God’s clear direction. They have gone to places they shouldn’t have gone, and they have not gone to places God told them to go.         Too many Israelites were short-sighted. They looked through their own eyes to become filled with fear, doubt and self-determination. Even as God visually guided them with the cloud and pillar of fire, distrust of God blinded the “eyes of their heart” (Ephesians 1:18), so they could not see the personal, loving, God, who guided them safely each day.
    Why was it so difficult for God’s chosen people to say to God, “Show us the way. We’re coming!” 
    In truth, we are all on a journey from birth to death. Would it be good to know what awaits us at the end?  Is not our final destination of the highest importance? Do we not want to consider if physical death is the beginning of eternal spiritual destruction or spiritual victory?
    This is your lesson. Be not as Israel’s unbelievers. Be as the faithful Caleb and Joshua who persistently believed, followed and trusted God to their journey’s end. Know God has become visible to all mankind through the incarnation of Jesus Christ, who is the way (John 14:7). In faith, we are to know that in Christ is the reality of God’s personal, life-giving pathway to eternal life.  
    Today, through the Holy Spirit the LORD God continues to clearly lead his church He opens eyes to empower faithful people to see and show God’s promise to eternal life.
 
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. (Ephesians 1:18)